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Today's Rundown FDA staff return to work, but threat of second shutdown looms EMA staff lower flags at London office as Amsterdam move nears Ex-Sanofi executive to head up translational medicine at LEO Pharma Alexion’s Soliris follow-up clears trial in aHUS, its second rare disease Preventing flu with an antibody-plus-Tamiflu universal vaccine Medtronic to buy EPIX and its RF-based cardiac ablation platform Featured Story | | | Monday, January 28, 2019 FDA staff are returning to paid work today after the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. But with temporary funding set to lapse Feb. 15 and President Donald Trump skeptical a deal can be reached, the agency may be plunged back into a shutdown in less than three weeks. |
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Top Stories Monday, January 28, 2019 Staff at the European Medicines Agency have lowered the flags outside their London offices as they prepare to move to Amsterdam. The flag lowering took place as the EMA “symbolically said goodbye” to the city it has called home since its creation in 1995. Monday, January 28, 2019 LEO Pharma has hired Thomas Hultsch as its new head of translational medicine. Hultsch will build LEO Pharma’s presence in the U.S. and Europe, which includes overseeing the creation of a new translational medicine unit in Boston. Monday, January 28, 2019 Smarting from a patent defeat for cash cow Soliris in Europe, Alexion has dulled the pain with a phase 3 readout that sets up new filings for follow-up Ultomiris. Monday, January 28, 2019 The flu virus' ability to rapidly mutate into vaccine-resistant strains has made the search for a universal vaccine all the more challenging. Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have found a new clue to providing broad-based protection against the flu—and it rests partly on Roche’s FDA-approved remedy Tamiflu. Monday, January 28, 2019 Medtronic has moved to acquire EPIX Therapeutics and its catheter-based cardiac ablation system with plans to offer it alongside its own products and build out what the company describes as a “comprehensive suite of tools” for treating heart arrhythmias, including atrial fibrillation. | This week's sponsor is ExL Events. | | | |
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